17 Metaphors for vehicle

The vehicle on which he carried it was a kind of box upon runners, with a pole in front, to which two horses were fastened.

In the first place his vehicle is the swift-moving French octo-syllabic couplet, which alone gives an entirely different tone to the narrative from that of Geoffrey's high-sounding Latin prose.

The vehicles used by Michelangelo in his designs were mostly pen and chalk.

True, no carriages and pairs, with powdered footmen, roll about the streets; and the most splendid vehicles you are likely to meet are American buggies four-wheeled gigs with heads, and aprons through which the reins can be passed in wet weather.

Now the vehicle is a projection by the Spirit of substance coordinate with the natural order of the plane on which the vehicle functions, and therefore requires to be built up comformably to that order.

The vehicles in most general use are narrow, wooden cars upon two wheels, and composed of four posts with cross-beams.

John Yeardley, in one of his letters, in a lively manner describes the mode of travelling: The usual vehicle in this country is the single-seated carriole, made exactly to fit the figure of the traveller, and no spare room except a little well under his feet.

Economically, the vehicle of competition has become the profit-seeking business corporation, backed politically and often subsidized economically by the nation or empire.

" The vehicle in question was a light buggy; drawn by a particularly large and spirited horse.

Up hill and down dale,with merciless ruts and savage ridges,now, a slough, to all appearance destitute of bottom, and, next, a treacherous stretch of sand, into which the wheels sink deeper and deeper at every revolution, as if the vehicle were France, and the road disorder,such is a faint adumbration of the state of affairs in the benighted interior of our petulant little whiskey-drinking sister State!

When taken alone the best vehicle is hot milk, which greatly quickens its aperient operation.

The Spirit is the Formless principle of Life, and the vehicle is a Form in which this principle functions.

This vehicle was a road wagon, without a top, and the joints of its box-body were tight enough to prevent the water from immediately entering it; so, somewhat deeply sunken, it rested upon the water.

These grim vehicles, which jeered at bullets, and were proof even against shrapnel, quickly became a nightmare to the Germans.

The majestic yellow vehicle with its cushioned, lavishly decorated interior, its thronelike seat above the world, was an exciting affair, even when it rested in the stable yard.

It is not, perhaps, very necessary to inquire whether the vehicle of so much delight and instruction, be a story probable or unlikely, native or foreign.

Our ride to the quay, through the dark by-ways, in a cart, the only vehicle which at that day could navigate the muddy, unpaved streets of Detroit, was a theme for much merriment, and not less so, our descent of the narrow, perpendicular stair-way by which we reached the little apartment called the Ladies' Cabin.

17 Metaphors for  vehicle